Hunting Reports
Ronny Dugas and his Area 8 buck
Ronny Dugas killed this buck on the second day of the season, Sept. 17, 2023, in Area 8 while hunting in a tree saddle on a scrape line. The buck green scored 130.
Year: 2023
Fishing Reports
Kelsea’s yellowfin tuna
Kelsea Watts holds a 65-pound yellowfin tuna caught 70 miles from the Venice Marina. The fish was caught while freelining a horn belly.
Hunting Reports
Opening day teal hunt
Bryian Robson shared this photo of his son and his dog on the opening day of teal season.
Fishing Reports
Diane Peters with her red drum
Diane Peters caught this red drum back in June 2023 out of Shell Beach in the Bayou St. Malo area.
Fishing Reports
Kade McNabb’s shark
Kade McNabb with a shark caught at Vermilion Bay on Sept. 17, 2023.
Fishing Reports
Eli Stelly’s Lafitte fishing trip
Derek Stelly and his son Eli Stelly, 7, and Jody Coker had a great trip in Lafitte on Aug. 16. Eli caught his first speckled trout, redfish, and drum. The bull red and drum pictured
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Venice Snowy Grouper
Chad Bacas caught this 41.4-pound Snowy Grouper out of Venice. It would be a top 3 fish in the state but was caught on an electric reel.
Fishing Reports
Cobia was the highlight of the day
Addison Pichoff, 13, caught her first cobia dropping whole pogies 20 miles south of Empire. “We launched out of Empire and a mile from the boat launch the trim motor went out. We are die hard
Field Reports
Topwater mayhem
Chas Champagne takes advantage of perfect conditions just before an approaching front and has an epic day catching speckled trout on topwater.[…]
News Breaker
LDWF enforcement agent recognized at November commission meeting
Shikar-Safari Club International presented their 2022 Conservation Officer of the Year award for Louisiana to LDWF Corporal Blaine Wagner.[…]
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Stacking up jumbo blue crabs with nets
Jared Serigné went with Vincent Verdin of the YouTube channel PelicanBoneOutdoors to get some jumbo blue crabs with nets.[…]
News Breaker
LDWF: Red snapper landing estimates through Oct. 22
The LDWF released the latest private recreational red snapper landing estimates through LA Creel through October 22, 2023.[…]
Columns
Red snapper guessing game
The pounds of red snapper we don’t catch in Louisiana will be added to any the other four Gulf States don’t take and divided for next year.[…]
Deer of the Year
Borrowed gun, sultry weather don’t stop Leone from mowing down big buck
Logan Leone of Stonewall shot this 15-point buck with a borrowed Weatherby .257 on Oct. 28 in DeSoto Parish.[…]
Hunting
LDWF to offer durable fishing and hunting license card
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will begin selling durable collector’s license cards in the near future.[…]
Ducks
LDWF reminds waterfowl hunters of new mottled duck hunting regulations for 2023-24 season
The harvest of mottled ducks is prohibited in the first 15 days of the regular duck season in both the East and West zones.[…]